The creators of the Hindu scriptures known as the Brahmaand Bhāgavatapurāṇas lavished a great amount of descriptive detail on mythical and ‘mythologised’ places where important discourses were enunciated: the Naimiṣa forest, Mt Meru, Kurukṣetra, and Ānanda on the banks of the Ganges. At first glance this might appear to be idle expression of literary virtuosity, but I suggest that this careful ...

This chapter gives an account of the earliest Indian contacts with Indonesia according to first millennium AD inscriptions from East Kalimantan and Java. It discusses the changes which occurred in social, religious and political organization, particularly in Java, as a result. The dissemination of literary into Indonesia is examined in detail and a comparison is made of the rather limited liter...

Specialised or LSP translation is often compared unfavourably with literary translation in terms of the creative input required from the translator to produce a „good‟ translation. The supposed formulaic nature of LSP texts is contrasted with the creative nature of literary texts. The authors of LSP texts are often anonymous, possibly working in a team, and not necessarily native speakers of th...

According to Patrick Colm Hogan, in the US academic context, few people in literary theory or comparative literature have much familiarity with non-Western literary theories, and fewer still have research expertise in the field. While working on a project in non-Western literary theory, he was surprised to find that many of his friends and colleagues found it difficult to understand what non-We...

according to bourdieu’s cultural theory, the author’s trajectory reflects the dialectical relationship between his or her habitus and conditions of the literary field in a given historical situation. habitus is dialectically tied to the field and constructed with different capitals. in an author’s habitus, cultural capital plays the main role as the most significant capital. the field of litera...

A tone-vowel monitoring task similar to Ye and Connine’s (1999) experiment was conducted in Taiwan to examine how literary phonetic systems affect people’s perception of vowels, and then the relative temporal availability of vowel and tonal information. The results demonstrated that although participants were sensitive to the acoustic nature of monosyllablic stimuli, they mainly resorted to the...

Most definitions of literature have been criterial definitions, definitions based on a list of criteria which all literary works must meet. However, more current theories of meaning take the view that definitions are based on prototypes: there is broad agreement about good examples that meet all of the prototypical characteristics, and other examples are related to the prototypes by family rese...

In this paper we present the project InLéctor, aiming to create interactive bilingual ebooks. The goal of this project is to develop a set of applications for the automatic creation of bilingual ebooks. These books allow to switch from the original text to the translation with a simple click and are published in the more popular ebook formats: html, epub and mobi. We plan to publish literary wo...